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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
3
The article lists several trout recipes including baked, fried, and cold spiced preparations. It provides step by step instructions with ingredients such as dill, bay leaves, onions, vinegar, sugar, and flour, plus details on frying in lard and finishing with sauces. It also shares miscellaneous commentary on language, short words, and beliefs about strangers bringing disease.
The text outlines sickroom setup with practical advice on furniture and cleanliness and hints at social maneuvering to select men. It mentions a Louisville scene with a joking door mat incident and discusses the art of “Geeing” men as a social influence phenomenon.
Richard Grant White explains that transpire means to breathe through and pass off insensibly, closely matching perspire. He notes both share French roots and considers perspire specifically about skin secretion, while transpire is figurative for knowledge moving from a limited circle to publicity.
The article notes that child marriages were common in historic England. Wards of the crown were wed young, with some girls married as young as five and even nine to twelve seen as marriageable. Moll Vil era, daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, became a widow at nine and was described playing in a widow’s veil.
A brief item mentions extreme heat affecting water troughs and a New Jersey habit of feeding hens crushed ice to prevent hard-boiled eggs, reflecting quirky weather and farm life observations.
A humorous exchange reveals a misunderstanding about a husband’s romantic history. Mrs Rose questions multiple affairs. Mrs Pose confesses only one but clarifies the lover was another man long before meeting her.
Fragmented dialog suggests a public exchange of jokes between two parties at a noon setting. The text cites mutual arrangements and exponents, noting daily lunch routines and a playful tone between the speakers. No clear event actors or outcomes are specified.
The piece argues for a unified central leadership to coordinate child welfare across cities. It cites unit health plans like Milwaukee's as practical models to reduce infant mortality by integrating social and medical services for all families, not just infants.
A narrator warns against Bilks across the street who boasts quality clothing. The suit proves poor, shrinking and tearing, while Bilks profits briefly on slick sales. The piece ends with a vow to avoid the dealer until judgment day and a caution about guile.
City officials urge hydrants be sunk below street level or flush with sidewalks and marked clearly for visibility. Building signs above hydrants indicate exits and distances with arrows to nearest hydrants, enhancing access during emergencies.
London inventor Thomas Farrow unveils a simple car front device named the Farometer. It displays ten twelve or twenty tiles per car to indicate speed, intended to curb speeding and reduce traffic hazards.
A reflective poem questions how to weigh a baby and the meaning of a single life. It contrasts earthly measures with divine value, noting that only God knows a soul's worth and that a mother should cherish the child while acknowledging eternity.
A fragmented nineteenth century page presents a ballad about a doomed lovers pair near the Dismal Swamp with firefly lamps and a birch bark canoe. It alternates with short verse sections about rain true giving perseverance and other poets.
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